Ret. Army Ranger Major Jeff Struecker was in Jackson on Monday to talk about facing fear with faith.

Struecker led a convoy into heavy gunfire in Mogadishu, Somalia, in 1993 -- a story that became the book and movie "Black Hawk Down."

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Despite the deadly embassy attack in Libya, Struecker said he believes there is enough security at places where Americans work abroad.

"No embassy is able to stop the entire country if they want to overrun an embassy. That will never be possible for the U.S. to put enough armed men and women there. So, what you see in Syria could easily happen in the rest of the world, but the fact that it doesn't happen tells you we have the right amount of security at embassies around the world."

Struecker was speaking with the Young Business Leaders of Jackson on Monday.